White Ash Scientific Name: Fraxinus americana
Description: A large and valuable timber tree 60-75' and occasionally 120' high in woodlands of the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys, with a trunk diameter of 4-6'. In isolation it is broadly ovate, with large, ascending limbs and branches, the lower branches often drooping. In the forest the stem is tall and very straight.
Habitat: Common in rich, moist, cool woods, in fields, or on river banks.
Range: Newfoundland to Ontario and northern Minnesota, eastern Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, and south to northern Florida.
Type: Tree Source:Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs by F. Schuyler Mathews
Photograph: Paul Wray, Iowa State University from www.forestryimages.org. |
